CANADA: Big Win Against Trudeau’s Anti-Pipeline Law

Section: Members Highlights
3 April 2022 | Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) / Canada
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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation celebrates the Alberta Court of Appeal’s decision that the federal government’s Impact Assessment Act is unconstitutional. The CTF was an official intervener in the court case against the legislation.

“The court decision against Ottawa’s No More Pipelines Law is a big win for taxpayers,” said Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director of the CTF. “We need to be able to develop Canadian resources to create jobs and get our neighbours back to work, and we also need these projects to help us pay for hospitals, schools, and lower taxes.”

The CTF calculated that the pipeline deficit could cost taxpayers across the country $12.8 billion between 2013 and 2023 by reducing the federal government’s revenue. That means a lack of pipelines could cost each province and territory at least one new hospital between 2013 and 2023.

“Resource projects help pay the bills and when they aren’t able to generate that revenue, politicians start looking to families to fill the budget gap,” said Terrazzano.“Taxpayers are being dragged further into debt because politicians are road blocking Canadian resource projects and this court ruling makes it clear those legal obstructions are unconstitutional”.